Even as I start to rewrite this column for the umpteenth time, I’m still not exactly sure where it’s going, so please bear with me. I’ve been toying with the idea of my “final column” for several weeks, and it seems that there are just too many things I want to say that will never [...]
Seeing as it’s almost the end of the semester, it’s time for all of us who live on campus to worry about the thing we absolutely hate: packing. If most of you are like me, you have not even begun to pack your stuff to take home yet, but you’ve thought about it several times. [...]
Goodbyes are always hard; they instill fear of what’s on the horizon without those we’ve grown so accustomed to. But they also bring out joy and pride – of all of that those leaving accomplished. The Knight will be saying goodbye to four extraordinary people, who have been the cornerstone of this year’s hard work. [...]
This is the end, beautiful friend, this is the end, my only friend, the end.” The lyrics for “The End” by The Doors have swum to the forefront of my mind only a few times in my life. The first time was when I visited Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris in May. For nearly an [...]
Warning – the following column is a rant, about people who rant. I would like to talk about a certain group of people – I may even call them a “type of people” – people who think the world revolves around them, or stops for them; that if their troubles are gone – then everyone [...]
Hard to believe, but for many of us graduation is only 16 days away. For me, it’s even harder to believe it was this time just four years ago that most of us were gearing up to graduate high school. Sometimes I can’t wrap my head around the fact that my high school experience actually [...]
Sometimes I wonder how much more growing up I’ll have to do before I’m considered an adult. After my first day of work, or when I move onto my own health insurance? Or maybe just when I pick a “mature” close-cropped haircut and stick with it? I still don’t have a car yet, mind you, [...]
Come this summer, Crispo Apartments will be leveled and the renovated Carneval Athletic Pavilion will take shape. The changes are part of a plan that began with the opening of North Hall. When it came time to decide which modernization would come next – Nash Library or the rec – administrators evidently pushed the rec [...]
The events of the past week in Boston have prompted a time when we can really get our fists up in the air and say some pretty ugly things. When there is a great evil that involves the heart of the United States, there is never a lack of patriotism, and unification becomes a theme [...]
While many of my friends are looking anxiously and excitedly toward graduation and crossing that symbolic threshold of adulthood, I’ve been stressing out about signs that I am aging in other less glamorous ways. I haven’t found any gray hairs, and besides an old sports injury, my joints are spry as ever. What I’m talking [...]